what's up guys, Lew here back with another video and today I'm gonna tell
you about the top five reasons to choose over-ear headphones like these ins.....
the top five reasons to choose over ear headphones when compared to those little dinky
in-ear earbuds or otherwise. Now for this demonstration I'm going to be using the
brand new HiFiMAN HE350. Little bit about these headphones: open back design,
premium materials, huge fifty millimeter drivers and available exclusively at
Massdrop. And temporarily this is a collaboration, a relaunch of a classic
these things are a huge drop off of the retail cost. They are available for about a
hundred bucks and to be quite honest it's going to be difficult to find
headphones of this caliber at that price point. So if you want to get in on the
action: link in the description. Go check it out! So why over-ear headphones?
Number one: the driver! These have giant fifty millimeter drivers and no matter
what you do in an in-ear-style headphone you simply will not have as big of a speaker
on your head. What does this mean for you?
Generally speaking a better listening experience, bigger driver, more sound. This is a
acoustics 101. You can have a big driver that's terrible, you have a small driver
that's incredible. But in general, general terms, these guys gonna have bigger
drivers, which do a better job, most of the time, at reproducing a wider frequency range
all the way down to those low frequencies that we all love. Number two:
longer listening sessions. So with this set of headphones I've got you. This
is a pretty lightweight over-ear and it's adjustable, so chances are it's
gonna be comfortable for you to wear for very long periods of time where the
inside of your ear, generally speaking, is going to be more susceptible to fatigue.
so you can throw a pair of these on
and three hours can float by as you listen to your pink floyd or whatever it
is that you choose. Plus the adjustability means that they're gonna
fit better for more people
Number three: sound stage. This is terminology that gets thrown around in the audio world in
with an open back design the experience you have is a lot more similar to what
it's like to be in a live venue where it kind of, it kind of feels like sound is
coming from a further distance away like you are in an environment of sound. It's very
difficult to have this very wide soundstage. It comes with an open back in
in-ear design.
Number four: at home listening. Generally speaking when you've got a set up, you got a
record player, you might have one of these guys right down here:
I've actually got a dark voice tube amplifier like this one.
Generally speaking you're gonna want to give them something that's easy to put on,
easy to share,
you're not gonna have those kind of hygiene issues with in ear headphones. So for those kinds of
social listening environments, maybe in the living room or in your bedroom or so
on, these are just gonna be a little bit easier to pass around. The fifth reason why you
should choose over ear headphones when compared to get here is for gaming. Or
movies anything that's mixed in a kind of potentially surround environment. When
you're in a game and you hear gunshots coming from a particular direction that
larger driver on the outside your ears is gonna do a really good job of helping you
identify the exact location of that sound. These things are going to do a
fantastic job of delivering that. So there you have it! That's five reasons. The
most important reasons to me to choose over ear headphones when compared to
in-ear style. If you want to jump on the mass drop for the HE350, become one of
the few people on the planet
that actually have these headphones at this price, click the link in the description
and also stay tuned, because coming up in the next video tomorrow it's gonna be
the top five reasons to pick in-ear headphones compared to over-ear.